So I've been in Dunedin for about two weeks now. I've got my I.D card; I've sat my English Diagnostic test; getting on well with the flatties (who are all here now); and until monday, when my course starts, I'm pretty relaxed. The first flat meeting is on Sunday afternoon. That's where we are discussing shopping, cooking, dishes, lounge suite, everything pretty much.
I've been to a couple of churches but I'm still gonna have a good look around. However I do know a few faces and names from the local Salvation Army church which I've attended several functions with, and a couple of people from Nations (a student dominated church on campus. Very big). The people in caversham baptist and caversham community that I know are a little far away to get to every sunday (other side of town) when I don't have a car, so those churches may be quite difficult to attend regularly.
The Diagnostic test I did consisted of 4 parts. Listening to a lecturer on a tape recorder and then answering questions about what he said, Dictating some sentences, Reading a text and answering questions about it's content, and writing an essay based on a controversial issue.
The test was not extremely hard but it was a lot harder than I was told it would be (was told it was like year 7-8 tests). The thing about my sitting the test is that I actually benefit more if I failed. The reason being for this is because as a health science student I am required to take 7 set subjects. I can, however, take an eighth. If I take the eighth subject then the seven subjects at the end of the course with the highest marks are the only marks that count. Therefore people usually choose an eighth subject that they find easy. I haven't taken an eighth subject. If I fail this diagnostic test then I am required to take English as my eighth subject. Because the english paper is not very difficult it will be one of my highest marked papers and therefore I would not be required to do so well in another subject I sit.
In saying that, I haven't tried to fail the diagnostic test, I just excersised the freedom of enjoyment in my essay writing. If I do fail the test then I am required to get atleast 50% in my English throughout the year or I drop out of health science. So it's not the smartest thing to fail the test because you do run the risk of not continuing a career in health sciences.
Anyway, that's all I really have to say at the moment.
Janei,
Rayd
I've been to a couple of churches but I'm still gonna have a good look around. However I do know a few faces and names from the local Salvation Army church which I've attended several functions with, and a couple of people from Nations (a student dominated church on campus. Very big). The people in caversham baptist and caversham community that I know are a little far away to get to every sunday (other side of town) when I don't have a car, so those churches may be quite difficult to attend regularly.
The Diagnostic test I did consisted of 4 parts. Listening to a lecturer on a tape recorder and then answering questions about what he said, Dictating some sentences, Reading a text and answering questions about it's content, and writing an essay based on a controversial issue.
The test was not extremely hard but it was a lot harder than I was told it would be (was told it was like year 7-8 tests). The thing about my sitting the test is that I actually benefit more if I failed. The reason being for this is because as a health science student I am required to take 7 set subjects. I can, however, take an eighth. If I take the eighth subject then the seven subjects at the end of the course with the highest marks are the only marks that count. Therefore people usually choose an eighth subject that they find easy. I haven't taken an eighth subject. If I fail this diagnostic test then I am required to take English as my eighth subject. Because the english paper is not very difficult it will be one of my highest marked papers and therefore I would not be required to do so well in another subject I sit.
In saying that, I haven't tried to fail the diagnostic test, I just excersised the freedom of enjoyment in my essay writing. If I do fail the test then I am required to get atleast 50% in my English throughout the year or I drop out of health science. So it's not the smartest thing to fail the test because you do run the risk of not continuing a career in health sciences.
Anyway, that's all I really have to say at the moment.
Janei,
Rayd
posted by Rayd at 2:46 pm
2 Comments:
Are you anywhere near Invercargill?
yea, Dunedin is just north of it. How can you know invercargil and not Dunedin? Dunedin is about twice the population size (Also info from the local i-site, Dunedin has the largest city area in New Zealand, and the 5th largest in the world! Though the "city area" extends to about 20mins North of the actual Dunedin City and longer South)
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